{"author_link":"\/author\/spikycaterpillar\/","author_name":"SpikyCaterpillar","author_uid":"16530","comments":[{"author_name":"Wan","author_uid":"9172","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 3:52pm","epoch":1346168820,"text":"Right now the game can't launch, it fails to find the &quot;worldmap&quot; module at l797!"},{"author_name":"SpikyCaterpillar","author_uid":"16530","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 2:39am","epoch":1346207640,"text":"Thanks; I've updated the tarball to include worldmap.py and DejaVuSans."},{"author_name":"Will Xyen","author_uid":"1443","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 10:00pm","epoch":1346277300,"text":"Writing what compiler it should be compiled in might help. (Python)"},{"author_name":"mohammad","author_uid":"14064","time":"Sep 7, 2012 @ 3:05am","epoch":1346986800,"text":"Just the source?\r<br\/>Good luck getting people to play it."},{"author_name":"marudziik","author_uid":"5431","time":"Sep 7, 2012 @ 4:09pm","epoch":1347033840,"text":"Well I did play it. Every programmer should have python installed anyway and pygame is just another lib. There's no need for compiling anyway. :3\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But while I believe there's no harm done here, you could try and package this into a nice exe (unless you're on linux-only environment, but then - some virtual machine would do), or at the very least, write what are the keys to use in your game. I had to dig in your source to check what I can do. Some hints:\r<br\/>p: load slot\r<br\/>s: save slot\r<br\/>b: doesn't work :P\r<br\/>m: mutate current organism\r<br\/>1-9: select mutated organism\r<br\/>space: start playing (arrows: movement, pgup\/pgdown: dive up\/down, +\/-: zoom in\/out)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I like where this was going, although it's definitely not finished. But it's not unplayable. You did implement a lot of features - shame you didn't manage to finish, but the idea was pretty cool. Mutation stuff seems to work quite well, as well as moving\/swimming in the world. This might have been a little too much for LD, but I believe you were onto something really interesting. Maybe try to finish it as a post-compo? I would gladly try this one out again."},{"author_name":"Desi Quintans","author_uid":"14456","time":"Sep 16, 2012 @ 12:16pm","epoch":1347797460,"text":"Please make an executable next time. Not everyone has Python, or knows how to execute py scripts."},{"author_name":"csanyk","author_uid":"10473","time":"Sep 17, 2012 @ 2:11am","epoch":1347847560,"text":"^^^What Desi said."},{"author_name":"goerp","author_uid":"14225","time":"Sep 17, 2012 @ 6:06pm","epoch":1347904860,"text":"I'm sorry. Just installed Python, think I installed pygame corectly, but the games's not running. Maybe I'll try again after the compo, but with just a few hours 'till the deadline, I'll pass."}],"images":["ld24\/16530-1bfae74abf720f09d2894ccad90f5c8c.jpg","ld24\/16530-8777f63fc0a7b825dc7ce018fd6f0f2c.jpg","ld24\/16530-ff57937cd808377a0ec60f69c73783b0.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/spikycaterpillar.com\/eat_spawn_die\/","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29146","g_author":"16530","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"29176","g_title":"Eat, Spawn, and Die - Organism Generator","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"8","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/16530-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/16530-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/16530-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"There was originally going to be eating and death involved, but instead I wound up just writing a genome simulator and building a (rather bare) world to walk, swim, and fall around in.\r\n\r\n(Tarball that actually includes DejaVuSans and worldmap.py now up on the website.)<\/p>","title":"Eat, Spawn, and Die - Organism Generator"}